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minus-squarepyre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoalso as an exclamation of surprise, like “halloo, what’s this?” “hello” is still occasionally used in this sense today.
minus-squarepyre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoidk if you’re joking but not German; it was indeed halloo or holloo in English before hello became standard
minus-squaretetris11@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months ago “halloo, what’s this?” “haaaallooooo” is used a lot by Germans as a slow exclamation to mean “hey idiot, what are you doing?”
minus-square🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-28 months agoIt’s used this way in American English sometimes, as in a teen issuing a counterpoint “HellOOOOoooo”
also as an exclamation of surprise, like “halloo, what’s this?”
“hello” is still occasionally used in this sense today.
found the german
idk if you’re joking but not German; it was indeed halloo or holloo in English before hello became standard
“haaaallooooo” is used a lot by Germans as a slow exclamation to mean “hey idiot, what are you doing?”
It’s used this way in American English sometimes, as in a teen issuing a counterpoint “HellOOOOoooo”